Thank you so much for transcribing, luckyseven! Your editorial touches made me laugh.
Almost every single sentence of it was just so, so weird. My first touch of hink came when he mentioned something about "unlike what people are saying about her running/drifting away.." I don't remember ANY speculation like that, it seemed so suspicious from the get-go! I think he's trying to plant the doubt that she might, indeed, have run away (since "so many people" thought so) while trying to also make himself seem like a brave/protective advocate for AJ.
At least he spared us the "come home honey, you're not in any trouble I promise" line from so many similar cases that ended tragically.
Biggest sign of a liar is they find the holes in their own story and work backwards to fill in the gaps, hoping to beat people to the punch. So what about that mailbox/cash/gas station/late to work saga does he view as the smoking gun, exactly? "You can ask my boss, he'll tell you how late I was!" WHY? Or did something happen that actually took a lot longer than the gas station trip he's reporting, so it's important for him to say if it had happened later, he wouldn't have had the time?
"Not a family of talkers.. a whole lot of love, not a lot of talking." WHY is it so important for him to convince us they stood there "staring"?? I can't be the only one who finds this part the most confusing/disturbing.